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Source Citation
"Binge Eating Disorder." KidsHealth - the Web's Most Visited Site about Children's Health. Web. 30 Oct. 2011. <http://kidshealth.org/teen/food_fitness/problems/binge_eating.html>.
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  • A teenager's body needs more nutrients which helps the development of bones and flesh.
  • Binge eating is also known as compulsive overeating.
  • You feel you have to eat till your gonna throw up.
  • Adults teens and children with the disorder don't wanna be overweight but simply can't help it.
  • Bulimia is a eating disorder that causes overeating including Binge eating.
  • The effects it leaves on a person is it makes them feel insecure about themselves and often feel stressed.
  • Binge eating is the disorders that causes you to overeat even when your full.
  • Eventually the victim feels as if they have no more control.
  • The disorders normally lead to heavy emotional stress in the victim.
  • Sometimes the hypothalamus which is the part of the brain that is in charge of telling your body its full or when your hungry can backslide to send the right information.
  • Binge eaters are normally heavy in size and sometimes even obese.
  • A few households may use food to "soothe" themselves and make themselves feel better.
  • Professional help is normally needed because the situation is becoming fatal.


Source Citation
Cohen, Jennifer H., et al. "Psychological distress is associated with unhealthful dietary practices. (Research and Professional Briefs)." Journal of the American Dietetic Association 102.5 (2002): 699+. Student Resources in Context. Web. 28 Oct. 2011.
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  • 35.5% of Binge eaters do Binge Eating because they are stressed.
  • 5% of Americans eat unhealthy and practice unhealthy eating habits.
  • Smoking causes Binge Eating.
  • Blacks and Caucasians have lower stress than Hispanics which cause Binge eating.
  • A great amount of depression can cause binge eating.



Source Citation Udovitch, Mim. "A secret society of the starving." The New York Times Magazine 8 Sept. 2002: 18. Infotrac Newsstand. Web. 28 Oct. 2011.
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  • Lack of calories affect the way you feel because your body has little or no calories to use up to keep you warm.
  • Eating disorders Anorexia and Bulimia are more of a choice of living.
  • Approximately one out of two-hundred females in the United States are affected with the eating disorder Anorexia.
  • Two or three in one-hundred females are affected with Bulimia in the U.S.
  • Eating disorders Anorexia and Bulimia can or already conclude(s) to vastly becoming O.C.D.
  • The 21st century is excepting Bulimia and Anorexia practically becoming a belief.


Source Citation

"Introduction to Anorexia: At Issue." Anorexia. Ed. Karen F. Balkin. San Diego: Greenhaven Press, 2001. At Issue. Opposing Viewpoints In Context. Web. 30 Oct. 2011.

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  • Victims are "Afraid" to eat.
  • Children feel as if their worth nothing to their parents and want to be "fitter, skinnier".
  • Anorexia proper name is Anorexia Nervosa.
  • When stress is in the family environment children/teens do the eating disorders to feel a control in their life.
  • 6& 10 million young adults and teen go through a certain type of disorder such as Bulimia or Anorexia.
  • 10% of females with the disorders have fatal endings.
  • Bulimia is much easier to treat than Anorexia.
  • Poor self-image is what is in the mind of the victims.
  • Victims feel negative, worthless, ugly and fat.
  • Eating disorders seem to "grow".
  • Roughly around 74 % of bulimics had a full recovery of their disorder while, only 33% of Anorexics recovered from their disorder.

Source Citation
Lord, Richard. "Disorders (Anorexia, Bulimia, and Binge Eating)." The Science Teacher 78.7 (2011): 78. Student Resources in Context. Web. 26 Oct. 2011.
Document URL http://go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?&id=GALE%7CA268789553&v=2.1&u=pl7053&it=r&p=GPS&sw=w

Information
  • Common eating disorders such as Bulimia & Anorexia once were obscure.
  • Eating disorders have because serious problems in the world.
  • Problems can occur with the digestive system.
  • Eating disorders are becoming more common to high school students.
  • Becoming serious problems in the world.